TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals
T2 - Community-led initiatives, the social solidarity economy and commons ecologies
AU - Esteves, Ana Margarida
AU - Genus, Audley
AU - Henfrey, Thomas
AU - Penha-Lopes, Gil
AU - East, May
N1 - Funding -
Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Grant Number: RAKE2015‐01
Centro de Estudos Internacionais ISCTE‐IUL. Grant Number: UID/CPO/03122/2013
Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Grant Number: SFRH/BPD/94495/2013
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - The social solidarity economy is an approach to the production and consumption of goods, services and knowledge that promises to address contemporary economic, social and environmental crises more effectively than business as usual. The paper employs the concept of commons ecologies to examine the practices, relationships and interactions among actors and organisations in the social solidarity economy, as well as between them and the mainstream economy, which shape the field and its degree of autonomy in relation to capitalism, through a process defined as boundary commoning. Such process shapes both local and regional commons ecologies, as well as the participation of local and regional actors in wider networks at national, international and global levels. The paper takes a case study-based approach to identify practices, relationships and interactions of commons ecologies in relation to selected community-led initiatives in the UK, Portugal, Brazil and Senegal. Each case study illuminates different qualities of local/regional commons ecologies and their forms of engagement with wider networks. Further, the paper shows that these cases demonstrate how the social solidarity economy may facilitate delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in a distinctive way. In each case, SSE acts as a vehicle for expressing participants' values and principles consistent with those underlying the SDGs. Local implementation of SDGs is thus an in-built feature of these commons ecologies. The participation of community-led initiatives in international and global networks offers opportunities to learn from local level experiences and successes, potentially strengthening SDG implementation more generally.
AB - The social solidarity economy is an approach to the production and consumption of goods, services and knowledge that promises to address contemporary economic, social and environmental crises more effectively than business as usual. The paper employs the concept of commons ecologies to examine the practices, relationships and interactions among actors and organisations in the social solidarity economy, as well as between them and the mainstream economy, which shape the field and its degree of autonomy in relation to capitalism, through a process defined as boundary commoning. Such process shapes both local and regional commons ecologies, as well as the participation of local and regional actors in wider networks at national, international and global levels. The paper takes a case study-based approach to identify practices, relationships and interactions of commons ecologies in relation to selected community-led initiatives in the UK, Portugal, Brazil and Senegal. Each case study illuminates different qualities of local/regional commons ecologies and their forms of engagement with wider networks. Further, the paper shows that these cases demonstrate how the social solidarity economy may facilitate delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in a distinctive way. In each case, SSE acts as a vehicle for expressing participants' values and principles consistent with those underlying the SDGs. Local implementation of SDGs is thus an in-built feature of these commons ecologies. The participation of community-led initiatives in international and global networks offers opportunities to learn from local level experiences and successes, potentially strengthening SDG implementation more generally.
KW - commons ecologies
KW - community-led initiatives
KW - social solidarity economy
KW - Sustainable Development Goals
KW - sustainable entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099945403&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/bse.2706
DO - 10.1002/bse.2706
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099945403
SN - 0964-4733
VL - 30
SP - 1423
EP - 1435
JO - Business Strategy and the Environment
JF - Business Strategy and the Environment
IS - 3
ER -